Video: Tesla’s Elon Musk Talks Top Gear With BBC

When BBC’s Top Gear tested the Tesla Roadster, the result was a staged misrepresentation of the vehicle.

Specifically, Tesla Motors says that Top Gear misrepresented the Roadster as follows:

The Roadster ran out of charge and had to be pushed into the Top Gear hangar by 4 men.

The Roadster’s true range is only 55 miles per charge (not 211).

One Roadster’s motor overheated and was completely immobilized as a result.

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The other Roadster’s brakes were broken, rendering the car undriveable.

That neither of the two Roadsters provided to Top Gear was available for test driving due to these problems.

As you may recall, Tesla Motors later filed a lawsuit against the BBC for continuing to spread these misrepresentations through its various Top Gear outlets (DVD sales, syndication, re-airing the episode and so on).

Tesla lost the lawsuit on grounds that the judge essentially stated that no reasonable individual would take the review presented by Top Gear as being an accurate representation of reality. Basically, the judge stated that the show is more comedy than reality.

Okay, with all that background info covered, let’s now move on to what’s in this video.

Looks as though Musk has gone into “Alan Mullaly” mode, with that perpetual Cheshire Cat grin. Hey if it keeps Mullaly in $Billions at Ford, even through inferior product cycles, I guess it will immunize Musk also.

As far as the BBC goes, they Lie with the best of them, and I’m not talking about Top Gear.